Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pos pn] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the way home , she practised the words she would speak to Craig Grenfell , she must tell him to leave , to find another place to stay but the feeling of emptiness that swept over her whenever she thought of saying goodbye to him brought tears brimming to her eyes . |
| 2 | She looked at him , warmth returning to her eyes . |
| 3 | The moment seemed to stretch out endlessly , his gaze travelling across her face , her neck , her shoulder , returning to her eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ What you been doing to your eyes , Cameron ? ’ |
| 5 | Well now , what have you been doing to your eyes ? |
| 6 | And when she had helped Carole to put Emma and Sophie to bed she had n't been able to prevent tears coming to her eyes while she had listened to them solemnly saying their prayers . |
| 7 | Tucking the little girls up under their light sheets , she could n't prevent tears from coming to her eyes when one of the children placed her thin arms around her neck . |
| 8 | The death of Socrates in Plato 's Phaedo is one of the most inspiring stories , and the scholar Scaliger could never read it without tears coming to his eyes . |
| 9 | She jumped up and seized his arm , tears starting to her eyes . |
| 10 | Indeed , they seemed to be leaning over her to catch her every breath , closest by her panting mouth , reaching to her eyes , and the air was thick with poison sap and sharp with vomit . |
| 11 | Tears springing to her eyes , she pushed her chair back , rose , and ran out of the dining room . |
| 12 | Lucy Templeton groaned aloud , tears springing to her eyes . |
| 13 | Given Shakespeare 's unlimited verbal energies it is no surprise to find him culling ingenuity from this idea of giving and receiving , as in the dazzling wit of 24 : ( I have italicized his in line 5 since it refers to the Poet ; his in line 8 since it refers to his bosom ; and They in line 14 as referring to his eyes . ) |